"In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights."

-- Alexander Smith

#Book Quotes #Night Quotes #Garden Quotes

“Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.”
“That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.”
“Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.”
“They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.”
“Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?”
“Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.”

Source : Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko (1996). “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy”, p.13, Government Institutes
“Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book.”

Source : Patricia Gaffney (2009). “The Saving Graces: A Novel”, p.128, Harper Collins
“I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man.”

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